Category: Film & video

Movies long and short, documentary, experimental, educational, but not including trailers

Buffalo Sonnet: A Digital Comic

In a project commissioned by New York’s Lincoln Center, SADC produced an audio-described version of the digital comic, “Buffalo Sonnet.” This artistic meditation on the Black experience tells the story of the historic San Juan Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, a vibrant cultural hub in the early 20th century that was eventually demolished to make way… Continue reading Buffalo Sonnet: A Digital Comic

Access:Horror

So inclusive, it’s scary. Proudly ranked among the Top 5 Most Accessible Festivals in the 2023 Accessibility Scorecard Impact Report, Access:Horror is committed to ensuring a welcoming, barrier-free experience for all. Access:Horror celebrates disability, genre cinema, and all that’s good in the world. Hosted by Ariel Baska (filmmaker, author, podcaster), the event will feature short film screenings, panels,… Continue reading Access:Horror

Be Here Now

Celeste, a grieving artist, returns to their hometown for a quick visit, but when their ride’s car is stolen, they must spend the night revisiting the people and places they left behind, realizing that connection, joy, and magic are at play even when life feels impossible. Be Here Now merges the aesthetics of irreverent queer… Continue reading Be Here Now

Las Cosas Que Brillan

Las Cosas Que Brillan isn’t just a film—it’s a love letter to the Trans Latinx community. ⁠ Featuring a story of resilience, self-discovery, and hope, this film gives a voice to stories that deserve to be seen and heard.⁠ In this film by Sotomayor Productions, a curious young mermaid defies her mother’s warnings and ventures… Continue reading Las Cosas Que Brillan

Thanks, Babs!

Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed-racing through life, one five-year plan at a time. Thanks, Babs! premieres at Frameline 49 on June 20th, 2025 in the Homegrown program. This program celebrates queer stories from the Bay Area. It features sci-fi, heists, gay stuff, elder stories, and more. Thanks, Babs! is the latest documentary produced by… Continue reading Thanks, Babs!

In Excess

A series of encounters with one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces — unearths hidden dynamics of labor, surveillance, and displacement in modern America. In Excess traces Philadelphia’s protracted efforts to curb illegal dumping and littering through a series of vignettes about excess, neglect, and human behavior. Presented as both a… Continue reading In Excess

2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

For the second year in a row, SADC produced the audio description that was provided to all of the finalists of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, a program feature starting last year. As before, no specific information about any of this years fifteen finalist short films was provided to SADC prior to our receiving them,… Continue reading 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Beam+ Stories, Season 2

Beam+ is a project-based, physically integrated creative arts company based in Denver, CO. The Beam+ Stories series is focused on breaking stigma, one story at a time. Season 2 features nine short documentaries focused on Denver-area disabled artists from diverse backgrounds and experiences working in a range of artistic mediums. The series premieres June 22nd,… Continue reading Beam+ Stories, Season 2

Holding Liat

Holding Liat is winner of the Documentary Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at 2025 Berlin Film Festival. Liat Beinin Atzili is one of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows Liat’s relatives, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and… Continue reading Holding Liat

Vivien’s Wild Ride

After a long career in cinema, film editor Vivien Hillgrove starts losing her sight, forcing her to reexamine past traumas and relationships, and to reinvent herself and her art. Directed by Vivien Hillgrove, Vivien’s Wild Ride is a story of resistance and resilience. The documentary captures a story of transformation on many levels, reimagining what it… Continue reading Vivien’s Wild Ride

Life After

The documentary Life After coalesces the missing voices of the disabled community in the contemporary debate around medically assisted dying. Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport uncovers shocking abuses of power while amplifying the voices of the disability community fighting for justice and dignity in an unfolding matter of life and death. This film premiered at the 2025… Continue reading Life After

Godzilla Minus One

The latest in our pro bono or “vigilante” AD series of work is a feature-length AD script. In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.… Continue reading Godzilla Minus One

Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel). Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi,… Continue reading Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

The Last Jews of Guantánamo

Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo (The Last Jews of Guantánamo) provides a glimpse of a tiny community at a unique moment for Jews in Cuba. In the city of Guantánamo, following the liberalization of Cuban policies against religion, two women in their 80s are finally to be bat mitzvah; to ritually proclaim their faith and… Continue reading The Last Jews of Guantánamo

After the Bomb

After the Bomb focuses on two women permanently disabled as adults by violence in Northern Ireland in the period known as the Troubles. It tells the story of their ultimately successful campaign along with others to secure substantive government assistance to people injured like themselves. At the same time, the film documents the unique support… Continue reading After the Bomb

Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)

Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1) is a collaborative art installation by Carmen and Antonio Papalia, which stood on view at the Migros museum in Zurich, Switzerland, October 2023 through January 2024 for their Interdependencies exhibition. View and listen to the description SADC produced for the photos and the videos of the piece. Photos: Writer Cheryl… Continue reading Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)

“Nothing Without Us: A Baltimore Story”

Last winter, student curators worked with two disability justice mentors from Melanie Hood-Wilson and Associates and six local disabled accessibility consultants on improving access for their Baltimore-based exhibitions of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s art. Students come from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Morgan State University, Johns Hopkins, and Coppin University. Members of the group will… Continue reading “Nothing Without Us: A Baltimore Story”

2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Here’s SADC receiving thanks from master of ceremonies Nic Novicki at the award ceremony. The SADC provided audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, now in its 11th year. (The winner for Best Film, entitled Audio Description, had AD already supplied and central to its story.) The films… Continue reading 2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Primitive way country come look inside

A disabled poet with Rett syndrome (Ysolde Stienon) and a disabled performing artist with Type 1 diabetes (Marina “heron” Tsaplina) document their 12-month artistic collaboration to illuminate ground-time: the nonverbal, expressive dynamics of embodied communication. SADC provided audio description for two short, open-captioned videos to accompany an essay of the same name in the Leonardo… Continue reading Primitive way country come look inside

The Ride Ahead

SADC recently produced audio description for Samuel and Dan Habib’s documentary, The Ride Ahead. The Ride Ahead is a major expansion of their Emmy Award winning film My Disability Roadmap, which SADC also audio described. Samuel Habib is a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But, as he says… Continue reading The Ride Ahead

Seeing Stars— a film with vision, preview

SADC produced AD for Emmy-winning writer and Broadway performer Ellen Gould, whose performance of Seeing Stars is part of a documentary currently in progress. SADC provided AD for a newly available preview of the film. Seeing Stars is Gould’s most personal project in two decades of writing and solo musical performance, speaking about the influence and… Continue reading Seeing Stars— a film with vision, preview

Voice of America’s “Extaordinary Teacher Damkerng”

At a public high school in Bangkok, teacher Damkerng Mungthanya is dedicated to helping students experience the joys of learning English. Blind since birth, Damkerng is also the only teacher with a disability in his school. In Thailand, 2.1 million people with disabilities are registered with the government, but only 6 percent of those of… Continue reading Voice of America’s “Extaordinary Teacher Damkerng”

Peacock Rebellion and Snarkzilla’s SF Snarkfest 2023

In May, we had the great joy of audio describing a 2-night comedy festival featuring eight legendary trans BIPOC comedians! And we’re excited to announce an encore screening of this fantastic event on November 14th. Screening details below. Featuring:Nori ReedLuna MerbrujaMs. Billie CooperDevi PeacockElena RoseEmber FiéraCassandra FalbyRay Ray The Homeyand a very special surprise ;)… Continue reading Peacock Rebellion and Snarkzilla’s SF Snarkfest 2023

Song Without Words

Song Without Words is a 15 minute film by Deaf musician and filmmaker Olivia Ting, which figured in her installation at Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, or E.A.A.T. SADC audio described the film for the installation and for the exhibition online. As an experimental art film with meaningful silences, the work would have been… Continue reading Song Without Words

Negro Mountain

A clairvoyant neurosurgeon embarks on a weekend get away with her best friend only to discover the mountain range has a haunting history. Audio description written by, Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC, Robert Kingett. Narrator, Barbara Faison. Blind QC and audio editor, Thomas Reid. View theNegro Mountain film details on Alicia’s website.

National Park Service 2023

The Collective was enlisted to produce expanded audio description for a series of short documentaries and social media shorts promoting research at national parks. The National Park Service partnered with the Center for Environmental Filmmaking for the films, which were made by graduate students in collaboration with Park Service staff. Topics ranged from trail camera… Continue reading National Park Service 2023

Our Truths, Our Power

Learn from members of Google’s Disability Alliance employee resource group as they share their personal experiences, truths, and dreams. Project lead by Robert Kingett. Audio description written by Cheryl Green. QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narrator and audio editor, Thomas Reid Watch Our Truths, Our Power, described

NINA

NINA is a short film by Oak Tree Films, a student-run production company in Villanova University’s Social Justice Documentary class. NINA follows a day in the life of the amazing students, teachers, and staff at the Nina School for the Deaf, as they establish a sense of community, prioritize deaf education, and pride themselves in… Continue reading NINA

Think Higher Think College

This video highlights the many things students with intellectual disability love about college: living in the dorm, taking classes that they choose, making friends, eating good food, participating in campus activities, and being independent. Hear from students and faculty from 5 different college campuses around the country about all the ways everyone benefits from students… Continue reading Think Higher Think College

Senses

After a horrific encounter with a stranger, two friends, one blind and other deaf, use their senses to defend themselves from a robbery gone wrong. Things aren’t always what they seem. Audio Description writer: Kensuke Nakamura. QC: Robert Kingett. Narrator: Barbara Faison. Audio editing: Thomas Reid. Read more about this short horror film by Alyscia Cunningham… Continue reading Senses

When We Fight

What happens when 30,000 teachers go on strike? Watch as one of the largest educator strikes in modern U.S. history unfolds in real-time, highlighting the stories and leadership of some of the women who led it, from union organizers to classroom teachers. This 2022 documentary by Yael Bridge and Yoni Golijov has educational distribution through… Continue reading When We Fight

Upstream, Downriver

A documentary film by Maggie Burnette Stogner, Executive Director of American University’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking. Distributed by New Day Films. AD written by Oliver Baker, QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, and narrated by Project Lead Cheryl Green. Audio edited by Thomas Reid. Learn more about the film and upcoming festival and community screenings.

This Is What the World Looks Like When You’re Gone

This documentary short film by Steen Starr is a poetic reflection on love, loss, family, nature, religion and grief. The film will be released in 2023. Audio description written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, QC by Robert Kingett, and narrated by Oliver Baker.

Superfest Disability Film Festival 2022

The Social Audio Description Collective described three films for the 2022 Superfest Disability Film Festival, which screened both virtually and in person in October: Êxtase (Ecstasy) by Moara Passoni, a feature length Brazilian film in Portuguese, AD written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, script QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, audio edited by Kensuke Nakamura. Narrated… Continue reading Superfest Disability Film Festival 2022

My Disability Roadmap

Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go to college. But he drives a 350-pound wheelchair, uses a communication device, and can have a seizure at any moment. Determined to find his path forward, he seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. Will they empower him to launch the bold adult life… Continue reading My Disability Roadmap

Hiking 75km on the Tonquin Valley Trail in Alberta Canada

A 16 minute film by Sebastian Bennett Described for presentation at the 2022 Abilities Expo in Toronto, Canada. Watch it on YouTube. Writer: Oliver Baker. Script editors: Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Cheryl Green. Narrator: Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio editor: Kensuke Nakamura. Part of the Accessible Parks Canada project.